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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: FYI: VM systems on the net
Message-ID: <394@argus.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 26-Jul-86 00:25:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 26 00:25:39 1986
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In article <494@sunybcs.UUCP>, colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
> >Since VM handles all the I/O, it is an excellent system for people who
> >who are debugging Physical IOCS. Vm will not let the user move the 
> >disk heads outside their alloted area even with PIOCS. Thus one user
> >cannot corrupt anothers files by accident  or even on purpose.
> 
> We recently got a 3081 running VM.  When the 3081 itself crashed,
> EVERYBODY's files were trashed!
> 
> I shall never understand how you can make a computer more reliable
> by simulating it on another computer.
> -- 
> Col. G. L. Sicherman

A system crash could wipe out any file system, Un*x, VM, DOS, etc.
The purpose of VM is to mitigate the problems that a faulty user
program could cause.  A program running under a prived id can blow
away any operating system I know of.

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